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On 12/27/2025 at 9:38 PM, WinningIsHard said:

Starting with a trash OL is what I’m talking about here in regards to Sark’s abilities , but the argument isn’t sark can’t win 9 or 10 games. The argument is sark has all the tools to be Kirby smart or Ryan day but in year 6 he doesn’t seem to be capable of that. If you spend $15-$20 million a year then you gotta expect to win a title or be in the running to win it. I guess I’m looking at it all wrong. Ignore me and I’ll hold my opinion until December of 26.

Well, since Smart won his first MNC in year 6, and Day won his first in year 6, I guess we will see next year if Sark can be a Smart and/or day in his 6th year.

I hope he does break through next year but leave out the whiny smart antics and the pedo Day aura.

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5 minutes ago, Josef Pwag said:

Texas being a blue blood is not mutually exclusive from being smart & startegic with our scheduling.

If smart & strategic scheduling (as opposed to a having a disciplined, well-coached team) is what’s needed to get into the CFP, then we should’ve just stayed in the shithole Big 12 and we could’ve had a permanent yearly spot in the CFP like Texas Tech will for the foreseeable future.

The portal played a big role in the success of Indiana and Cignetti.

Don't have a quarterback, just go get the Heisman winner out of the portal.

22 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

No, we are not getting Cignetti, but that is not the point.

Cignetti proved that to win today, you don't have to be a blue-blood. You have to be able to replace mediocre players through the portal, actually get the most out of your top athletes (who knew?), develop your players and field a well-prepared, focused and motivated team.

I have no confidence that our current coach can accomplish that.

15 minutes ago, Josef Pwag said:

Texas being a blue blood is not mutually exclusive from being smart & startegic with our scheduling.

7 minutes ago, MrBig said:

If smart & strategic scheduling (as opposed to a having a disciplined, well-coached team) is what’s needed to get into the CFP, then we should’ve just stayed in the shithole Big 12 and we could’ve had a permanent yearly spot in the CFP like Texas Tech will for the foreseeable future.

We can stay in the SEC, schedule OOC like Indiana, and we are in the Playoffs most years (and would have been this year).

Some of you fuckers have room temp IQs.

6 minutes ago, Jimbob said:

Well, since Smart won his first MNC in year 6, and Day won his first in year 6, I guess we will see next year if Sark can be a Smart and/or day in his 6th year.

I hope he does break through next year but leave out the whiny smart antics and the pedo Day aura.

Both Smart and Day reached the National Championship game in Year 2 (both loses) and some people are still here in Year 6 of Sark pumping up his resume because of his two back-to-back semifinal loss appearances. I get the point you’re trying to make about winning it all in Year 6, but that seems like a reach when we can’t even get invited to the playoff in Year 5 with a multimillion dollar roster.

1 hour ago, immamac said:

Idk man that game was awesome. It just sucks that the team shit their fucking pants through the 2nd bye week basically.

This. I want us playing another top tier OOC team once a year. We win then theres no horseshit about an easy schedule. That and we dont look like a bunch of bitch asses. Lose then it is paramount we learn from our mistakes and take care of business in conference.

Losing to the bottom rung in our conference should never be in the equation. I remember when it wasnt. We were expected to and did beat everyone who wasnt in the top 3 during the SWC days and most of the Big 12 era. That is where Texas must and can reside in the SEC as well.

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1 hour ago, boilerhorn said:

Consensus of many mock drafts has Goosby at #40.

That site is a good aggregation of the mock drafts... It tracks 73 mock drafts for Goosby. 31 of them have him in the first round. Some of them involve the same person at different times during the year. Unscientific and most of those guys know as much about football as some of our weaker posters.

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I get it. It’s really early and there will be a lot of movement. I was just saying that it is not crazy that Goosby could become a 1st round guy.

23 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

You sir are an idiot.

Sark is not getting fired no matter what his record is next year and he got nowhere near being fired this year.

This is certainly an opinion, completely wrong, but an opinion nonetheless. If he went full Mike Norvell next season there is a 0.00% chance he is retained, and the bar is a lot higher than that.

4 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Good idea.

I would love to hear the “fire Sark” idiots explain who they think we could hire that would be better.

Sark is a good coach, he’s better than at least 60% of the other meatheads out there, but there are better coaches and they all like money. Being a really good OC doesn’t mean you will be a really good HC, it’s a different skillset My opinion is Sark is a top 5% playcaller and maybe a top 75% HC. Playing both roles diminishes both.

To think we couldn’t upgrade our HC or that we couldn’t afford to get someone we really wanted is about the same quality post as your previous one.

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1 hour ago, MrBig said:

Both Smart and Day reached the National Championship game in Year 2 (both loses) and some people are still here in Year 6 of Sark pumping up his resume because of his two back-to-back semifinal loss appearances. I get the point you’re trying to make about winning it all in Year 6, but that seems like a reach when we can’t even get invited to the playoff in Year 5 with a multimillion dollar roster.

What's the solution? Start over?

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Is getting to the semifinal really that damn different than reaching the title game?

2 hours ago, NBHorn7 said:

The portal played a big role in the success of Indiana and Cignetti.

Don't have a quarterback, just go get the Heisman winner out of the portal.

A bunch of items conspired to contribute to IU’s success in the past 2 years.

Very good coach focused on attention to detail; portal; deep NIL pockets; weak Big10 schedules.

2024 - SOS = 35. Losses to Notre Dame and Ohio State, their only ranked Opponents.

2025 - SOS = 28. Undefeated. Beat 3 (at the time) ranked opponents: Illinois (9), @Oregon (3), tOSU (1).

IU is a better team this year, but they drew powerhouses like Purdue, MSU, UCLA, and Wisconsin in conference this year. The OOC schedule of Old Dominion, Indiana State, and Kennesaw State is quite underwhelming.

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Hey fellas, we should start a Texas Roster 2026 Thread

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On 12/3/2025 at 4:55 PM, AP101S said:

I added a 2026 tab https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TzoBTIvCXfZIk7Sz3C9txMg0yPvrXyVM/edit?gid=1327300395#gid=1327300395

Players that are widely known not to be returning (NFL or transfer) are in italics. There will be many more leaving, but I'll let that play out. The starters and rotational guys will change quite a bit after portal season. I couldn't bring myself to color code an entire 2-deep since we have so many shitty options. We need need a lot of portal help.

There's a legend at the bottom that explains the abbreviations after a player's name:

RS - Used a redshirt
WO - Walk-on
EE - Early enrollee
TR - Transfer
BS - Blue shirt

I haven't seen a reliable list of early enrollees for 2026 yet, so that will need to be updated. I also updated the Texas by Class and Texas Grid tabs.

Still need to add the 2026 class to the Aggie Grid tab, but the players with no more eligibility have been removed and redshirt status has been updated. Concepcion will be declaring for the NFL. Bisontis, Ricks, and York have been mentioned as possibly declaring for NFL as well.

3 hours ago, NBHorn7 said:

portal played a big role in the success of Indiana and Cignetti.

People keep saying this like the portal is this super secret thing that other teams don’t have access to

There is nothing secret about the portal, but it makes coaches better, funny how that happens with better players.

You think Texas would have made the semis in the CFP either year without it and players like Golden and Mitchell.

This year Texas wasn't nearly as successful in the portal, and they missed the CFP.

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3 hours ago, NBHorn7 said:

The portal played a big role in the success of Indiana and Cignetti.

Then someone should tell Sark about it so he can try it.

3 hours ago, texifornia said:

You only need to replicate perhaps the greatest two-season coaching job in this century. It's that easy!

You're right. We shouldn't raise our expectations. We should just stay the current path and be happy with a pretty good team, cause that is looking like our ceiling with Sark.

3 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

Then someone should tell Sark about it so he can try it.

You're right. We shouldn't raise our expectations. We should just stay the current path and be happy with a pretty good team, cause that is looking like our ceiling with Sark.

Totally agree, see my post right above yours.

13 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

There is nothing secret about the portal, but it makes coaches better, funny how that happens with better players.

You think Texas would have made the semis in the CFP either year without it and players like Golden and Mitchell.

This year Texas wasn't nearly as successful in the portal, and they missed the CFP.

Or, you know, maybe better coaches use the portal better

1 minute ago, Sawbonz said:

Or, you know, maybe better coaches use the portal better

Both can certainly be the case. If Cignetti keeps up his current success in the portal, the advantage is his.

The portal is what coaches make of it.

Sark did well twice, but this past season, not so much.

I feel like sark’s biggest weaknesses are lack of circumspection and poor self critique. When you are the head of an organization those are critical skills, unless you have capable people under you who trust they can be honest with you, and you are willing to consider their advice. Sark doesn’t seem like that type of leader to me

1 minute ago, Sawbonz said:

I feel like sark’s biggest weaknesses are lack of circumspection and poor self critique. When you are the head of an organization those are critical skills, unless you have capable people under you who trust they can be honest with you, and you are willing to consider their advice. Sark doesn’t seem like that type of leader to me

Everything is coming to a head in 2026. This is either a turning point for him and Texas football or there will be serious disappointment.

12 hours ago, cmontexas said:

The 2025 Texas Longhorns would lose 10 times if we played the 2025 Georgia Bulldogs 10 times. What are we even talking about here? We weren't winning no goddamn championship.

Take the necessary steps to improve

Oh yeah? But the 11th time, that one right there is ours!

13 hours ago, cmontexas said:

The 2025 Texas Longhorns would lose 10 times if we played the 2025 Georgia Bulldogs 10 times. What are we even talking about here? We weren't winning no goddamn championship.

Take the necessary steps to improve

Preach! So many keep bitching that we should immediately scrubs the return home games with tOSU and Michigan (after we gave up the road games) like the schedule was a bigger impediment to our championship chances than the fact this team isn’t a top 5 (or maybe even top 10) squad. Talent was lacking due to poor portal/recruiting, a disengaged Sark in the offseason, and poor coaching/preparation in games we lost or came close to losing. Is the goal to make the playoff or to win a championship? For the most severely butt hurt, our signature wins were against a flawed OU team, a fraud aggy team, and a Vandy team that finished lower than us. 2025 Texas would need a miracle to even return to the semifinals.

Playing against good opponents makes you a better team. Winning a championship requires starting with top 10 talent and depth, effective offseason program, great coaching, and luck. Being too chickenshit to play UM or tOSU at home might let a team like 2025 Texas sneak into the playoffs, but it damn sure isn’t winning a title without addressing the larger problems. Improve talent and coaching, and you don’t have to worry about dropping games to shitty teams like Florida and nearly UK/MSU.

14 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

Ohio State and Oregon are good teams. You'll have to explain to me why you're including 7-6 Penn State with losses to 3-9 UCLA and Northwestern in that list. I also don't think you can compare Cignetti's first two seasons with established NIL and the transfer portal to any other time. Transferring in an entire, experienced team simply wasn't an option ever before.

Penn State is not a dogshit team. Their coach was fired early season and they leveled off after not having a good start.

2 minutes ago, immamac said:

Penn State is not a dogshit team. Their coach was fired early season and they leveled off after not having a good start.

3 cupcakes - Nevada, FIU, Villanova

Then lost 6 in a row

And finished by beating powerhouses Michigan State (4-8), Nebraska (7-5 and had already lost Raiola by then) and Rutgers (5-7). They beat Clemson, who was a disappointing 7-5, in a meaningless bowl game.

Penn State was mid as fuck.

11 hours ago, NBHorn7 said:

You think Texas would have made the semis in the CFP either year without it and players like Golden and Mitchell.

Or Ewers. /ducks

14 hours ago, SaucyJack said:

We can stay in the SEC, schedule OOC like Indiana, and we are in the Playoffs most years (and would have been this year).

Some of you fuckers have room temp IQs.

Also, Indiana played Oregon and Penn State. Both games Texas could have easily lost, because those teams are way better than Florida, miss st, and Kentucky.

Texas may still drop 3 with their schedule including georgia game 2 or equivalent.

If you watched Texas football in 2025 and felt like we got robbed by anyone but sark you need to get a better understanding of the game. The team came out of bye weeks twice in the season looking flat and shitty and executing horribly and unprepared to play. Both resulted in losses, one of which was an asswhipping that people keep telling me wasn't a blowout because at one point the scoreboard in the early 4th had Texas within 1 score, but they never had the ball back and they also got fucking dunked on for the entire 4th quarter.

I'm gonna watch this Texas Michigan game and have fun doing it because I enjoy watching the horns play. I'm not sitting here with any expectations and the game doesn't matter even a little bit. I'm more interested in what is going to happen in the portal and what additional coaching or staff changes are going to happen after the portal opens.

4 minutes ago, Js1 said:

3 cupcakes - Nevada, FIU, Villanova

Then lost 6 in a row

And finished by beating powerhouses Michigan State (4-8), Nebraska (7-5 and had already lost Raiola by then) and Rutgers (5-7). They beat Clemson, who was a disappointing 7-5, in a meaningless bowl game.

Penn State was mid as fuck.

Mid and dogshit are two different things. They had a very good roster.

8 minutes ago, Js1 said:

3 cupcakes - Nevada, FIU, Villanova

Then lost 6 in a row

And finished by beating powerhouses Michigan State (4-8), Nebraska (7-5 and had already lost Raiola by then) and Rutgers (5-7). They beat Clemson, who was a disappointing 7-5, in a meaningless bowl game.

Penn State was mid as fuck.

Especially when thier starting QB blew his knee out. Dude had some Heisman hype.

11 hours ago, NBHorn7 said:

There is nothing secret about the portal, but it makes coaches better, funny how that happens with better players.

You think Texas would have made the semis in the CFP either year without it and players like Golden and Mitchell.

This year Texas wasn't nearly as successful in the portal, and they missed the CFP.

The offensive staff kneecapped this year. OL was atrocious. There is a difference between a poor OL and a disaster. The Florida game was a disaster. So much immediate pressure. Big issue was the defense going from elite to merely good. 2024 defense gave up 14.8 pts in SEC play vs 25.8 this year. The fact of the matter is Texas has been led by the defense. This year it slipped. The offense has yet to be a high-level unit under Sark.

1 hour ago, immamac said:

The team came out of bye weeks twice in the season looking flat and shitty and executing horribly and unprepared to play. Both resulted in losses, one of which was an asswhipping that people keep telling me wasn't a blowout because at one point the scoreboard in the early 4th had Texas within 1 score, but they never had the ball back and they also got fucking dunked on for the entire 4th quarter.

Word

12 hours ago, NBHorn7 said:

Both can certainly be the case. If Cignetti keeps up his current success in the portal, the advantage is his.

The portal is what coaches make of it.

Sark did well twice, but this past season, not so much.

Like recruiting, the portal game is a crap shoot and hindsight is 20/20.

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1 hour ago, Codaxx said:

The offensive staff kneecapped this year. OL was atrocious. There is a difference between a poor OL and a disaster. The Florida game was a disaster. So much immediate pressure. Big issue was the defense going from elite to merely good. 2024 defense gave up 14.8 pts in SEC play vs 25.8 this year. The fact of the matter is Texas has been led by the defense. This year it slipped. The offense has yet to be a high-level unit under Sark.

All of this

Jan. 2 the transfer portal opens...

Portal recruits for 2026 will be in Austin this weekend 🤘

11 hours ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Preach! So many keep bitching that we should immediately scrubs the return home games with tOSU and Michigan (after we gave up the road games) like the schedule was a bigger impediment to our championship chances than the fact this team isn’t a top 5 (or maybe even top 10) squad. Talent was lacking due to poor portal/recruiting, a disengaged Sark in the offseason, and poor coaching/preparation in games we lost or came close to losing. Is the goal to make the playoff or to win a championship? For the most severely butt hurt, our signature wins were against a flawed OU team, a fraud aggy team, and a Vandy team that finished lower than us. 2025 Texas would need a miracle to even return to the semifinals.

Playing against good opponents makes you a better team. Winning a championship requires starting with top 10 talent and depth, effective offseason program, great coaching, and luck. Being too chickenshit to play UM or tOSU at home might let a team like 2025 Texas sneak into the playoffs, but it damn sure isn’t winning a title without addressing the larger problems. Improve talent and coaching, and you don’t have to worry about dropping games to shitty teams like Florida and nearly UK/MSU.

All true, but you will get neg rep for upsetting the people who hate logic and truth.

16 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

I want us playing another top tier OOC team once a year. We win then theres no horseshit about an easy schedule. That and we dont look like a bunch of bitch asses.

This is the only argument that can be made to continute to schedule difficult OOC games that can put our playoff possibiliries at risk. It is a terrible argument. It is the kind of argument a 10-year old child would make, but it is the only argument. Some insecurity personally within you wants to validate your favorite college footbal team without needing to win a national championship.

OOC this year, Indiana played Old Dominion, Kennesaw State and and Indiana State. They are the #1 seed in the playoffs. They didn't need a tough OOC opponent to get their team ready for three wins over Top-10 teams. If they win the national championship, you can think of them as a bitch ass team, but I truly don't think they will care.

11 hours ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Playing against good opponents makes you a better team.

Go look at Indiana's OOC schedule. They still managed to beat 3 teams ranked in the Top-10 and to become the #1 seed in the playoffs.

Just now, NashLonghorn said:

Looks like Cam Coleman WR from Auburn is now on the market.

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On 12/29/2025 at 7:10 AM, Josef Pwag said:

We more than doubled the rushing yards of Ohio State in week 1 (and Arch threw for more yards than Sayin). Nothing matters if your Head Coach/OC goes full retard in the red zone.

Nope.

We had to play Florida. We chose to play Ohio State.....while the teams that actually made the playoffs scheduled cupcakes. We fucked ourselves last year and will likely fuck ourselves again in the very near future.

Pretty much.

On 12/29/2025 at 7:30 AM, BurntOrange&White said:

The we chose Ohio state is such a terrible talking point. It’s flat out we don’t lose to Florida and we’re in. Florida is a garbage team we had no business losing to point blank. Voters didn’t leave us out because of Ohio State loss, they left us out because of a horrible loss to a bad team which led to be a 3rd loss.

No, it's flat out "3 losses". That's it. The bottom line. They lose to Vandy or OU instead of Florida guess what? They're STILL left out the playoffs. No they shouldn't have lost to fucking Florida...but no, that's not the sole reason. Such a stupid regurgitated take.

On 12/29/2025 at 7:36 AM, Codaxx said:

It is flat out that if Texas is 10-2, Texas is in the playoffs. That means beating OSU, Florida, or Georgia would have put Texas in. Trying to say it was because of a singular loss to any of those teams is just wrong

This

On 12/29/2025 at 7:41 AM, David Dennison said:

If we beat Florida, we're in. It's as simple as that.

Or OSU or Georgia. Simple as that.

The loss to Florida didn't keep us out...having 3 losses did.

On 12/29/2025 at 7:52 AM, immamac said:

Or Ohio State or Georgia.

The Ohio State and Florida games were the most winnable in the deep 4th.

Agreed.

22 hours ago, Blackcat00 said:

Florida that day would of beat a handful of top 10 to 25 teams. They just shit the bed after the Texas win. Still should of won that game.

Yeah a great game from their QB and their STAR WR coming back that game really snowballed. Yes they sucked before and after...but they were feisty that day.

19 hours ago, immamac said:

@David Dennison gonna be a stupid pedantic cunt about something when it happens too instead of just taking the very fucking obvious L from the beginning that cignetti is a better coach.

I don't know we can clearly say that though. I think it's probably true. And he absolutely had a better season this year with wins over Oregon and Ohio state.

I will say he's smarter with use of the portal and by convincing his school to jettison anyone with a pulse off their OOC schedule(the most important thing really) and they lucked out by have easily manageable Big 10 scheduled and Penn St falling apart completely.

Only having one really tough opponent in Oregon during the regular season absolutely had a LOT to do with how well they're season went...beating OSU in the Big 10 title game solidified it.

6 minutes ago, Josef Pwag said:

Go look at Indiana's OOC schedule. They still managed to beat 3 teams ranked in the Top-10 and to become the #1 seed in the playoffs.

To be fair, that's claiming Penn St as a Top 10 win, and the OSU game was a CCG to get that 3rd. Their schedule was absolutely dog shit outside of Oregon before the Title game, and that was helped by a trash OOC schedule that they smartly set up to be practice before a weak big 10 schedule.

Indiana absolutely did what they needed to and beat everything they were supposed to, unlike Texas.

22 minutes ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

All true, but you will get neg rep for upsetting the people who hate logic and truth.

No most have said to keep the return trip from OSU and Michigan. Just after that they shouldn't, ESPECIALLY ND and their bitch asses not joining a conference.

IF the format doesn't expect, we are absolutely hamstringing ourselves by intentionally scheduling national powers when our own conference schedule is going to be a murder.

Look at our schedule next year...going to be multiple top 10-15 teams. Plus OSU. In the future it won't get easier. No reason to schedule that hard OOC if it's going to be held against us with a loss.

1 minute ago, Drew said:

No most have said to keep the return trip from OSU and Michigan. Just after that they shouldn't, ESPECIALLY ND and their bitch asses not joining a conference.

IF the format doesn't expect, we are absolutely hamstringing ourselves by intentionally scheduling national powers when our own conference schedule is going to be a murder.

Look at our schedule next year...going to be multiple top 10-15 teams. Plus OSU. In the future it won't get easier. No reason to schedule that hard OOC if it's going to be held against us with a loss.

What?

The conference schedule is murder?

WHO KNEW????????!!!!

Certainly not this forum or its previous iterations. All I heard for over a decade was “the SECSECSEC” is overrated.

Is there a Waffle House nearby? Besides on this forum, I mean?

2 hours ago, immamac said:

Penn State is not a dogshit team. Their coach was fired early season and they leveled off after not having a good start.

The schedule as a whole was dog shit. I wasn't saying any individual team was.

13 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

I feel like sark’s biggest weaknesses are lack of circumspection and poor self critique.



Whereas I feel that these are his biggest strengths. That's why he jettisoned several coaches after just one year. Had you said this about Mack Brown I would have agreed with you.

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